29 year old Tyreek Hill - washed.

Guess we can rest easier now.

When the Ravens have the ball:

Spagnuolo is challenging his guys all week to step up against the NFL's #1 ranked rush offense and will scheme as such. The plan will be do everything humanly possible to keep down-and-distance in the Chiefs favor. Lamar has better weapons than he's ever had, but how many teams have 1) kept them out of consistent 2nd/3rd-and-shorts, or 2) boast the talent the Chiefs defense has?

The world will realize pretty quick how vulnerable that Ravens offensive line is in pass protection if Spags and the gang can just be certain to make them work for it. You can't let them run at you the way Buffalo did - you can't fear Lamar as a passer the same way Josh Allen warrants. You CHALLENGE him to win as a passer. If he does? Well that's what Jalen Hurts did to us last year. Still lost, but gave us the best chance to win the game because Spags knows that if we let Baltimore play on their terms, rushing relentlessly, it's over.

When the Chiefs have the ball:

Have to continue to commit to running the football, esp with power/gap schemes. Can you catch BAL in a bad look 2-3 times and let Pacheco take off for 25+ yards? I bet you can if you stick to it. Chiefs are on a heater these last few games of breaking off some explosives. And that's all you need. Can't expect 5.0 YPC consistently -- but you can break some big ones to keep their defense honest.

After that? We count on Mahomes. We count on Kelce against a defense that has let tight ends get the better of them plenty. A playbook that is expanding - no bullets will be withheld in this one. Continue to protect the tackles. Yes, they're playing well, but this won't be easy for them either. It's a great defense - play calls being on-point is a non-negotiable. If they aren't, Mahomes is gonna have to play hero ball all day. But this is the same staff that knew how to take advantage of Philly last year in the red zone, so I don't expect them to fail there.

As a whole, withstand the early energy. Place is gonna be a madhouse early on. Only the Chiefs have the power to zap that energy away and make it quiet.

That worked in the Dolphins game on TNF in 2021. The Ravens adapated and that hasn’t worked since. This has happened many times: a team debuts a new look against the Ravens, people clamor that he has been figured out, and then the Ravens adjust to overcome it. Literally last week, the Texans tried that by blitzing 3x as much as they typically do, and it worked for a whole half before the Ravens adjusted in game and pummeled them in the second half.

Good thing for Chiefs fans that Spagnuolo is calling the game and not you.

Tyreek relies on straight-line speed. That doesn’t fade until later. It’s why Mostert recorded some of the fastest MPHs this year at 31.

Lamar doesn’t win on speed. His “athleticism” is actually a generational level ability to read defenders’ tendencies in the open field and exploit their leverage. It’s fundamentally a cognitive skill and not a physical one, although obviously the quick twitch/speed help.

Who is the Ravens greatest QB? Flacco?

The Bills have consistently been a DVOA darling, throughout this time period.

I can’t find rankings for 2019, but the 49ers were high as well.

The Bengals and Eagles have been impressive by that measure, too. I may be mixing remembrance of weighted va standard, too.

Point is: Yes, the Ravens weighted DVOA says they’re historically good. Saying there was nothing special about other teams KC has played, according to DVOA, doesn’t really track because some of them were viewed that way.

I'll raise you the reigning SB MVP.

Umm, he threw for under 3,700 yards and 24 TD in 16 games with by far the best WR core he's ever had in his career.

He is still nothing more than an average passing QB with elite running skills. The Chiefs secondary is going to lock your guys down and Lamar will have no options but to run and/or check down every play. Absolutely nobody is scared of him throwing the ball.

Less rushing?

He’s averaging pretty close to the same number of attempts as his career average.

He had the 6th most attempts by a QB in NFL history this year.

Shoot, didn’t consider this. I stand corrected. Kudos.

10 year old kids on the football field can juke players.

I can juke people my age. Guaranteed.

Lamar's legs are his biggest threat.

Once again, ALL the pressure is on Baltimore.

Imagine paying $500 and chanting that ridiculously stupid chant only for Pat to go nuclear on that defense and for Spags to put Wonderlic boy in a vice ROFL

I just rewatched the first half and you are absolutely wrong! There were under routes, check downs, etc. You are lucky that it was the Texans defense doing those blitzes as most of them were ineffective and left wide open gaps for Lamar to run in.

If we only use the Texans game to measure how the Ravens will play, Lamar is going to get sacked 6 times and throw at least one pick.

In addition to that, your defense was vunerable in the middle all game and if you don't think that Mahomes is going to chew up!

This should be a good game, but you are clearly not being realistic if you think this is going to be a blow out. You are not going to dominate the Chiefs o-line with a four man rush.

His yards per attempt, yards per game, and attempts per game are lower than any year other than when he was a rookie. And this isn’t a stat that is readily available, but I can tell you from watching the games that there are far fewer designed runs/RPOs than ever before. He runs when the opportunity is there now, kind of similar to Mahomes’ scrambles.